Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 63 105
Rank change year-on-year -16 +42 -49
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 43 30 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.95% 2.68% 1.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.85% 45.45% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 31 18 27
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,375 £49,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £84,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £89,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.82% -5.17%

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 135 66 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.12% 5.90% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 106 51 114
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £74,688
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford -16 11 £62,500 -30.56%
Staines -1 9 £67,500 -3.57%
Leatherhead - 6 - -
Egham - 4 £65,000 -
Reigate -8 3 £60,000 - 4
Woking -22 3 £65,000 -21.21%
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.63%) IIS
1 5 (11.63%) nginx
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) AWS
2 23 (53.49%) Azure
3 17 (39.53%) GitHub
4 9 (20.93%) Azure AKS
4 9 (20.93%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (16.28%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (16.28%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (16.28%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (13.95%) Cloudflare
7 6 (13.95%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (13.95%) OpenShift
8 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (11.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (11.63%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (9.30%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (9.30%) GCP
10 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Firewall
1 5 (11.63%) VPN
2 2 (4.65%) DNS
2 2 (4.65%) HTTP
2 2 (4.65%) RTP
2 2 (4.65%) Unified Communications
2 2 (4.65%) VoIP
2 2 (4.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) MongoDB
2 9 (20.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (13.95%) MySQL
4 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
5 4 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.65%) Pinecone
6 2 (4.65%) Redis
6 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 7 (16.28%) GitLab
3 6 (13.95%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.98%) JIRA
6 2 (4.65%) Claude Code
6 2 (4.65%) MSI
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Retail
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Legal
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Administrator
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps Administrator
6 5 (11.63%) Lead
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 5 (11.63%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (9.30%) .NET Developer
7 4 (9.30%) Backend Developer
7 4 (9.30%) Python Developer
7 4 (9.30%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) .NET
2 6 (13.95%) ARM Templates
2 6 (13.95%) Node.js
2 6 (13.95%) REST
3 5 (11.63%) Loki
3 5 (11.63%) Spring
4 4 (9.30%) .NET Core
4 4 (9.30%) .NET Framework
4 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET
4 4 (9.30%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (9.30%) Flask
4 4 (9.30%) Kafka
4 4 (9.30%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
4 4 (9.30%) Vue
5 2 (4.65%) ADO
5 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.65%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (11.63%) Private Cloud
3 4 (9.30%) PKI
4 3 (6.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.98%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.65%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.33%) IoT
6 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (48.84%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Windows
3 4 (9.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
2 23 (53.49%) DevOps
3 18 (41.86%) Agile
4 16 (37.21%) AI
5 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (32.56%) Microservices
6 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
9 8 (18.60%) Cloud Security
9 8 (18.60%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (18.60%) Observability
9 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.28%) Collaborative Culture
10 7 (16.28%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
10 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
10 7 (16.28%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (13.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Python
2 15 (34.88%) SQL
3 11 (25.58%) C#
3 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
4 10 (23.26%) Bash
5 6 (13.95%) Go
6 5 (11.63%) Bicep
6 5 (11.63%) Java
7 4 (9.30%) C++
7 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.65%) C
8 2 (4.65%) Perl
8 2 (4.65%) PHP
9 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.98%) CEH
3 3 (6.98%) CISM
3 3 (6.98%) CISSP
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) GIAC
3 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.98%) NIST
3 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (65.12%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.65%) Kamailio
4 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Terraform
2 13 (30.23%) Grafana
2 13 (30.23%) Prometheus
3 11 (25.58%) Ansible
4 5 (11.63%) Argo
4 5 (11.63%) Proxmox
5 4 (9.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) VMware
3 4 (9.30%) Google
3 4 (9.30%) New Relic
3 4 (9.30%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.98%) Qualys
4 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.98%) Splunk
4 3 (6.98%) Zerto
5 2 (4.65%) BT
5 2 (4.65%) Databricks
5 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.65%) Mitel
6 1 (2.33%) EMC